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Geek Culture / mailbombed! cranky

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indi
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 17:00
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I got mailbombed by some useless cockroach with a depth charge program.

have no fear I havent lost any work yet but man!
Ive had that install for 4 years+.
Im not a happy camper.

I hate script kiddies who download and run stuff.
get a real life and hack me with your own tools ya loser.
at least then i can say uhuh ive been 13373d by someone special.
cya in a few days when things are back up.
If I find out who it was your gonna feel it letigsly.

one cranky mod.
luckily Ive got a spare day off tomorrow with the X so it will distract me being destructive untowards the assailant.

i guess it has to happen to me once every 4 years.grrr


fall down seven times, stand up eight
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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 17:22
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Well, look on the bright side: at least now you get to strangle someone

You're just jealous cuz the voices don't talk to you!!!
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Van B
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 18:12
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Ahh, I'm guessing I'm not the only person here to sit watching their firewall wishing they could bitch-slap the monkeys pinging at their door.

You just know it's someone who wets themselves at any sort of confrontation, probably a virgin, probably get's his face smacked every day for being a flange. Some geeks deserve to be picked on!.


Van-B


The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.
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UnderLord
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 18:38
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Man thats gotta suck but if someone pings my firewall i'll know it as it will pop up with a message asking if i want to allow them access hell no! i can also do backtraces sygate is such a nice little firewall.

The search continues.

Current project - A space game
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zircher
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 19:03 Edited at: 8th Apr 2004 19:04
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This day and age you've got to have protection. I run a firewall, virus scanner, two pest detection programs, and only use web based e-mail at home. I get about a half dozen sync scans and new tear attacks a week so I know the bad guys are out there.

Where's Echo Mirage when you need them?
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TAZ

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DrakeX
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 20:11
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"This day and age you've got to have protection"



the nature of fanboy was irrepressible.
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 20:15
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the day I pugged in my Linksys router is the day the firewall stopped getting hit. I am on a linksys that does NAT conversion and I run a software firewall. This pings, scans, sweeps and other nefarious traffic never reaches my firewall because the router just deflects the traffic. Even if you don't need a router, they are so cheap, you should pick one up and just connect thru it - but make sure it does NAT or there is no point.

my $0.02


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spooky
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Posted: 8th Apr 2004 20:42
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I use a Netgear router/adsl modem/firewall thingy and like CattleRustler says, I have set it to ban ALL incoming traffic. As a backup measure also using Windows XP built in firewall on all my network and internet connections. Wireless stuff has all sorts of encryption and lockdowns in operation. Touch wood, nothing has happened to my pc or any of my flatmates pcc since setting this up.

All I now get is stupid emails that try and get me to open the dodgy attachments. Yeah right. AVG antivirus picks up on most of those.

Boo!
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indi
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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 03:37
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thats the thing I have a fire wall, ip masqueraider, virus protection , honeypot and spyware protection also really paranoid about all downloads etc.. and it still got me.

I think I can recover the OS without re installing. Some programs are still not loading. Getting real intimate with my registry settings as of late.


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Egyptian Mua
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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 06:09
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Are you saying that being on these forms puts your computer at risk.

-Egyptianmua
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